NYCEDC $1B Life Sciences Project RFP

NYCEDC releases a request for proposal (RFP) for a construction management firm to manage the construction of SPARC Kips Bay, including over 600,000 square feet of education facilities. The total anticipated contract award is expected to be over $1 billion.

Scope of Work

The New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) announced a Request for Proposals (RFP) for a construction management firm to manage the construction of the first phase of the Science Park and Research Campus (SPARC) Kips Bay project, a first-of-its-kind life sciences innovation, career, and education hub that will further anchor the life sciences industry in New York City. The total anticipated contract award is expected to be over $1 billion, and the work will be governed under a Project Labor Agreement (PLA). Construction is expected to begin at the end of 2025 and is anticipated to be completed in 2031.

The construction manager will oversee:

  • Deconstruction of the existing buildings on the current Hunter Brookdale School of Nursing;
  • Construction of the first phase of the SPARC Kips Bay development — over 600,000 square feet of educational facilities for the City University of New York (CUNY) and New York City Public Schools (NYCPS), SPARC Square – a new central public open space on the campus, and flood protection measures;
  • And reconstruction of the existing 25th Street pedestrian bridge over the FDR Drive with new ADA access and universal design.

SPARC Kips Bay is a city and state project that will transform Hunter College’s Brookdale School of Nursing Campus into nearly two million square feet of brand new state-of-the-art academic, healthcare, and life sciences space. This project will be delivered in two phases with phase one constructing the Hunter College School of Nursing, CUNY Graduate School of Health & Policy, Borough of Manhattan Community College, and a health-and-science-focused public high school and phase two building up to one million square feet of life sciences real estate, a Bellevue/NYC Health + Hospitals outpatient care and advanced nursing practice simulation training center, and the Office of Chief Medical Examiner’s forensic pathology center and forensic toxicology laboratory.

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